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<span class="top">The Book of Amos</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">5:1</td>
<td>Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">5:2</td>
<td>The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.</td>
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<td class="v">5:3</td>
<td>For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">5:4</td>
<td>For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:</td>
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<td class="v">5:5</td>
<td>But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.</td>
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<td class="v">5:6</td>
<td>Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.</td>
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<td class="v">5:7</td>
<td>Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,</td>
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<td class="v">5:8</td>
<td>Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:</td>
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<td class="v">5:9</td>
<td>That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.</td>
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<td class="v">5:10</td>
<td>They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.</td>
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<td class="v">5:11</td>
<td>Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.</td>
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<td class="v">5:12</td>
<td>For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.</td>
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<td class="v">5:13</td>
<td>Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.</td>
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<td class="v">5:14</td>
<td>Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.</td>
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<td class="v">5:15</td>
<td>Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.</td>
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<td class="v">5:16</td>
<td>Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.</td>
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<td class="v">5:17</td>
<td>And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">5:18</td>
<td>Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.</td>
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<td class="v">5:19</td>
<td>As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.</td>
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<td class="v">5:20</td>
<td>Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?</td>
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<td class="v">5:21</td>
<td>I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.</td>
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<td class="v">5:22</td>
<td>Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.</td>
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<td class="v">5:23</td>
<td>Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.</td>
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<td class="v">5:24</td>
<td>But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.</td>
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<td class="v">5:25</td>
<td>Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?</td>
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<td class="v">5:26</td>
<td>But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.</td>
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<td class="v">5:27</td>
<td>Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.</td>
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